Burke bellytank re-creation continues

When we last left Geoff Hacker’s Bill Burke re-creation bellytank racer, Geoff had just dropped it off with Ted Kempgens and Tom Bambard of Creative Motion Concepts in Tampa, and left them with instructions to replicate one of the most important historic land-speed racers – and to do so before August. That was in May, and Ted and Tom have made significant progress in the last couple months. As for the Ford flathead V-8 engine, Geoff trusted the build to Jon Phillips and Tim Masters, who has tried to make it look as authentic to 1946 as possible.

Also, if you have a few minutes, a local TV station visited Ted and Tom to find out what they were doing with the car. I wonder if the anchorwoman always tells the audience she doesn’t care about the subject matter of a segment?

BMDsays:

July 22, 2009 12:24 pm

She probably gets in her Prius and drives home with a self-satisfied smirk on her face, not knowing that the extra pollution caused by the manufacturing and disposal of the batteries it uses, adds the equivalent of 3.5 years of carbon emissions to however long the car is in use… Maybe, idano, she could be fully aware of that fact…